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Talking Europe

FRANCE 24 English

Politicians, activists and researchers debate the issues facing the EU and a "guest of the week" offers their insight in a long-format interview that gets to the heart of the matter. Saturday at 7:15pm.

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00:12:27

Protecting our furry friends: EU sets first ever...

Talking Europe ·

2025/07/11

It is estimated that around 44 percent of European citizens keep a pet. MEPs have now set out the first ever minimum standards in the EU for the breeding, housing and handling of cats and dogs. This is because a majority of owners buy their pets online, and traceability has become a big issue. The European Parliament hopes that its draft law will deal with the irresponsible importation of animals from outside the EU, and reduce the influence of criminal networks. The trade in cats and dogs is worth

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00:12:44

Putin can’t have a veto on Ukraine’s EU membership:...

Talking Europe ·

2025/06/20

Talking Europe welcomes Ruslan Stefanchuk, Speaker and Chairperson of the Ukrainian Parliament. Elected in October 2021 – just months before Russia’s full-scale invasion – Stefanchuk is a seasoned political figure, a close ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky, and second in line to the presidency under Ukraine’s constitution. A respected legal scholar, he brings that expertise to bear in discussing the legal complexities surrounding the use of frozen Russian assets. We also examine Ukraine’s

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00:12:39

Enrico Letta to Europe: 'Now is the time to act'

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2025/02/07

Forty years after Europe's Single Market was conceived as the cornerstone of post-war integration for millions of citizens across its member states, a divided continent is in danger of behind left behind in a fierce global competition dominated by the United States and China, Italy’s former prime minister, Enrico Letta, told FRANCE 24. Letta, a staunch pro-European who led Europe's third-largest economy from 2013 to 2014, and who authored a recent report on ways to reimagine the Single Market for

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00:12:20

Economy, migration, defence loom large in German...

Talking Europe ·

2025/02/07

Of all the elections happening in the EU this year, the vote in Germany is probably the one that is being watched most closely across the bloc. Europe's largest economy is in trouble; the old model of cheap gas and easily accessible export markets is no longer working. Meanwhile, its political fragmentation makes it increasingly hard for Germany to re-define its role in Europe, whether that's on defence spending, climate and energy policies or competitiveness. In this debate we explore what is stake

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00:12:14

'Poland is a benchmark for Europe on defence':...

Talking Europe ·

2025/01/10

Talking Europe sits down with France's top diplomat in Warsaw, just as Poland takes up the rotating presidency of the EU in turbulent geopolitical times. Étienne de Poncins was previously French ambassador to Ukraine and got out of Kyiv just in time when it was encircled by the Russian army in 2022. He wrote about that experience in his book "Au Cœur de la Guerre" – "At the Heart of the War". We talk about Poland’s position in the EU, and especially its defence commitments, as well as the EU’s

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00:12:32

Security, competitiveness, Trump: Will 2025 be...

Talking Europe ·

2025/01/10

2025 looks like a year full of dangers for the European Union. Even before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to office, his unpredictability is on full display as he tells NATO ally Denmark that he needs Greenland for US national security purposes – prompting a strong rebuke from France, which says the EU will not tolerate threats to its borders. And this is before Trump even gets going on the well-known difficult issues such as trade tariffs, Ukraine and NATO. Yet uncertainty also looms over

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00:12:32

Ukraine war 'leading nowhere'; give diplomacy a...

Talking Europe ·

2024/09/27

Talking Europe sits down with one of the most high-profile EU Commission presidents of modern times, Jean-Claude Juncker, who was in office from 2014 to 2019. He shares his thoughts on Ursula von der Leyen's second European Commission and the challenges facing Europe, from migration to Ukraine and the Middle East. Juncker, who had plenty of one-on-one time with Vladimir Putin, says he is "deeply disappointed" by the Russian president, but that it is still important give peace a chance, with the aid

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00:12:20

Ukraine pursues incursion in Russia: Unconditional EU...

Talking Europe ·

2024/09/13

Ukraine is continuing its ground offensive in Russia's Kursk region, and pursuing drone attacks deep inside Russian territory – signaling a more assertive approach. At the same time, Russian forces have advanced in eastern Ukraine, piling pressure on the country's war effort. We ask how the EU should respond to this situation, and whether the limits imposed on Ukraine's use of Western long-range weapons should be lifted. Plus, as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz moots peace talks that would include

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00:12:09

Five more years for Ursula von der Leyen: Can EU...

Talking Europe ·

2024/07/19

Ursula von der Leyen has been as confirmed the head of the European Commission for a second five-year term. She won a comfortable majority on July 18th, with 401 MEPs voting for her at the plenary session in Strasbourg – forty votes more than she needed to get her over the line. That is a stark contrast to 2019, when she scraped through with just nine votes. But the balancing act that she had pull off, in order to bring different political families together, does not stop now. Indeed, in the next

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00:12:48

National Assembly without a majority: France-EU ties...

Talking Europe ·

2024/07/12

It seems that France is going to have to learn coalition politics after a parliamentary election in which no party or bloc came close to winning an absolute majority. Germany and other countries have experience of grand coalitions, but in France, a win-or-lose mentality has been dominant among French politicians, and the last power-sharing ended 22 years ago. In this edition we discuss the implications of this stalemate for the EU – France being a founding member of the European project and whose

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00:12:29

France at a crossroads: Is the far right on the verge...

Talking Europe ·

2024/06/14

Charles de Gaulle famously complained that governing a country with 246 kinds of cheese was all but impossible. Less known is what De Gaulle said just before that: "Only peril can bring the French together". President Emmanuel Macron had peril on his mind when he stunned his compatriots by calling a snap national election after the far right routed his pro-European party in Sunday's European elections. Macron is betting that faced with peril – the risk of being governed by the most extreme-right

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